Yorktown BOCES students, staff taken to hospitals for cleaning vapors

9:48 PM,
Apr. 18, 2013

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Robert Marchant

Emergency personnel were dispatched to the BOCES Tech Center on a report of a chemical cleaners accidentally inhaled by students and staff, and a number of people were taken to the hospital as a precaution.

"The odor appeared to come from a slop sink that was being treated for a clogged drain," said Ellen Lane, a spokeswoman for the Board of Cooperative Educational Services.

Lt. Kevin Soravilla of the Yorktown police said EMTs and the Fire Department were called about 1 p.m. to the culinary facility at the BOCES campus, building E. ...